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Collaboration connects gene expression data and physiological mechanistic model simulations that should illuminate best treatment for selected patients. San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) May 14, 2013 Entelos Holding Corp. (“Entelos” or “the Company”), a premier provider of physiological system modeling and services, and Seattle-based Institute for System Biology (ISB), the nonprofit pioneers of the systems approach to study the molecular causes of diseases, today announced the successful...
ProSound F75 Ultrasound Imaging Platform Enables More Accurate Diagnosis of Cancers in GI Tract CENTER VALLEY, Pa., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympus, a precision technology leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions in Medical and Surgical Products, among other core businesses, announced today that the Company's ultrasound endoscopes will now be powered by the ProSound F75 Ultrasound Processor. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130514/PH12497 ) The...
Brittney Shipp, meteorologist of NBC TV 10 Philadelphia, interviewed Dr. Dominick Braccia D.O., Medical Director of Haverford Wellness Center in Harleysville, PA about the tick population, how it is multiplying during spring weather, and how to avoid getting infected. Harleysville, PA (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 May 1, 2013 Brittney Shipp meteorologist of NBC TV 10 Philadelphia interviewed Dr. Dominick Braccia D.O., Medical Director of Haverford Wellness Center in Harleysville, PA today about...
Diet Doc offers patient’s improved hCG diet plans to lose weight safely and rapidly, combatting new data linking obesity with a higher risk of prostate cancer for obese patients that tested positive for benign cancerous cells. Jackson, MS (PRWEB) May 03, 2013 Diet Doc is committed to fighting obesity in America through medical weight loss that combines prescription hCG with individualized diet plans that educate patients on how to lose weight fast and make healthy lifestyle changes,...
Company Celebrates 14th Year of Partnering in Hope with Largest Donation to Date AKRON, Ohio, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 1999, Kay® Jewelers has been a proud supporter of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®. Each year Kay® coordinates annual giving campaigns to benefit the lifesaving mission of finding cures for kids suffering from cancer and other deadly diseases. This year the company's efforts have resulted in its largest donation to date: $4.8 million for the kids of...
-- Phase 2 Clinical Trial Slated to Begin This Year -- SEATTLE, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced that it has requested Fast Track Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the development of OMS824 for the treatment of Huntington's disease. OMS824 selectively inhibits phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10), an enzyme expressed in areas of the brain linked to a wide range of diseases that affect cognition, including...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Inc., announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued patents that cover CAT-1000 and CAT-2000 series compounds. One patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,173,831) covers the CAT-1000 series' conjugation of salicylate and an omega-3 fatty acid using Catabasis' SMART Linker technology; the compounds in this series are intended to treat diseases involving chronic inflammation such as inflammatory...
VANCOUVER, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - viDA Therapeutics Inc. announces completion of a second tranche, equity financing of $750,000 bringing the total gross proceeds of the seed round financing to approximately $3,646,000. This additional funding of $750,000 from the Business Development Bank of Canada's venture capital arm (BDC Venture Capital) marks completion of key, preclinical milestones, supporting continued development of viDA's lead molecule (a granzyme B inhibitor) as...
High-powered microscopes open a live look at a process where mutations lead to autism and other diseases Using spinning disk microscopy on barely day-old zebra fish embryos, University of Oregon scientists have gained a new window on how synapse-building components move to worksites in the central nervous system. What researchers captured in these see-through embryos -- in what may be one of the first views of early glutamate-driven synapse formation in a living vertebrate -- were...
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital(® )channels support of Radio One, Inc., Yolanda Adams, Hezekiah Walker and James Fortune MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With efforts led by Radio One, Inc., the largest radio company primarily targeting African-American and urban listeners, nationally syndicated inspiration shows across the country helped raise $1,126,000 so St. Jude Children's Research Hospital(®) can continue its research discoveries to save the...
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General surgery is a specialty that concentrates on the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, bile ducts and the thyroid gland. This specialty also deals with skin, breast, soft tissue and hernia related diseases. General Surgeons have the opportunity to subspecialize in one or more of the following: Trauma Surgery: Trauma surgery is the specialty that performs invasive procedures for physical injuries in an emergency. This subspecialty holds the...
The earwigs are an order (Dermaptera) of insects characterized by large membraneous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings (thus the literal name of the order - "skin wings"). The abdomen extends well beyond the wings, and frequently ends in a pair of forceps-like cerci. With about 1,800 recorded species in 10 families, the order is relatively small among the Insecta, but the earwigs themselves are quite common throughout the world, often finding their way into houses, where they...
